Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 of perhaps the most celebrated

of perhaps the most celebrated treatises of antiquity on hunting and fishing

52 x 68 cm

Tracks of various major navigators are shown

engraved by F

US naval chart

Dutch Fool’s Map Date of Publication_c.1692 of perhaps the most celebratedAfbeeldinge vant zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks Kop This Dutch fools cap map satirises the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720. Cartographic features are given punning names such as the River Bubble, the Island of Despair and the town of Madmandam, but the real Rivers Thames, Seine and Meuse are also marked, drawing attention to the scenes of the greatest folly. In Britain, the South Sea Company folded, wiping out innumerable fortunes after a period